Rin: Yukio, let's go home.
Yukio: I'll cooperate with the Order. I can't hide it anymore. But I can't go home, I've made so many unforgivable mistakes.
Rin: Unforgivable by who? Who won't forgive you? *passes out*
Yukio: Who? ...Oh. It's me. *passes out*
They're both okay! Just unconscious! Lightning is disappointed that he can't ask them a bunch of questions right now, lol.
also HOLY CRAP THAT LITTLE SCUFFLE DID A LOT OF DAMAGE, guess that's just what it's like living in mythological type times. Anyway let's call a bunch of reinforcements to find Lucifer and Drac and make sure their lab was destroyed.
Bon wonders if Shima is okay. He is, and Konekomaru is here! Thanks, Kuro. Literal lifesaver.
They found Drac!
Lightning: So what's this thing you brought?
Drac: HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH A TERRIBLE THING TO MY LIFE'S WORK
Lightning: dude. Satan did this. From Yukio's eye. Yukio who YOU GUYS were keeping on your ship. You kinda brought this on yourself.
Drac: ...Is he here now? ...Well if you're so curious why don't you just open it?
Lightning/Osceola: Nope. Nope, getting a bad vibe here, let's take Drac into custody and keep a 24/7 security guard around this thing
Then Katoh puts on her heartwarming gloves and punches me repeatedly in the solar plexus:
- First the kids get some water boiling to warm up/make some food, and Rin is in tears over having the group back together! awwww
- Then Rin goes and offers to bring Yukio to the past, because Mom and Dad made mistakes too! And Rin's made THOUSANDS more mistakes than Yukio, and even with all that we can still keep living, and, and...
- Yukio cuts him off to say he's fine not seeing the past. He's realized that HE'S the one causing himself pain, not needing to be right or strong or whatever. He's the one who doesn't forgive his own mistakes. But he wants to. THAT'S GROWTH, BABY
- AND THEN THERE'S A CALLBACK TO LIKE CHAPTER 2 OR SOMETHING, where Yukio asks what Mom and Dad were like, and Rin says they were awesome, they died protecting us, they wanted us to get along. OH NO MY HEART, how am I gonna make it through the rest of the chapter at this rate
- And THEN on the way back they're like "...Sorry I shot you in the head so many times" "Yeah, sorry for hitting you, too" MY SWEET DISASTER CHILDREN
- AND THEN Suguro gets annoyed with having to clarify which Okumura he's talking to about breakfast and stumbles between calling Yukio "Okumura-sensei" vs "Okumura-kun" and he just says screw it, Imma call you Rin and Yukio from now on, that cool?
- He does this OVER Yukio's attempt to apologize for holding him at gunpoint I'm
- YUKIO IS BEING TREATED AS PART OF THE FRIEND GROUP AND I'M GOING TO DIE, PRECIOUS TRAUMA BABIES
- FOR THE FINISHING BLOW, THEY WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO HOLD ONTO THE FOOD RIN BROUGHT FROM THE PAST AND HE EATS IT WITH YUKIO AND YUKIO IS CRYING AND I'M CRYING OH MY GOD
Rin: Hey where's Shiemi though?
Izumo's attempts to explain are interrupted by Katoh CLOCKING ME IN THE FACE WITH HER CLIFFHANGER GLOVES:
guy: There's someone inside!
Lightning: Probably the replicant he smuggled over from Romania.
Osceola: Fujimoto?
Lightning: An Azazel clone. He's a vessel for Satan! Get back! What are you kids doing here? Get back!!
Yukio: Dad...?
(AND THEN SATAN IS CACKLING IN THE LAST PAGE)